There’s absolutely not any need to throw a rugged sofa with worn out fabric as soon as you’re able to sew a new sofa covers IKEA. The job takes less than two hours to complete when you’ve got basic sewing skills and require just a few straightforward equipment available at most hobby or fabric stores. Sewing a sofa cover lets you select a fabric which operates with the room decoration and don’t put a dent in your financial plan. Multiply body length is couched by the dimension and then add it to the width of this couch body. Share how many 36 to figure out the number of runs to purchase. Cut a rectangle of fabric with the width and length of the sofa body. Hang the bonnet over the couch to get the correct location for the arm bits. Sew each arm into your system with a 1/2 inch seam and zigzag in the raw edge to reduce fringing. Hang the lid over the couch so the armrests were at the right position. Gauge the width of this couch body from the centre to the ground, over the chair cushion and over the back into the rear of the floor. Gauge the couch body length from 1 arm into the arm. Increase both dimensions by 12 inches for tucking and stitching around chair cushions. Gauge the couch side over the arm’s surface, by the floor under the arm and stay at the chair cushion.